Stanford outside hitter Brittany Howard, a Mountain View High grad, is the Pac-12 women’s volleyball freshman of the week.

Cardinal middle blocker Carly Wopat was named the league’s offensive player of the week.

Stanford (22-2) went on the road and swept Oregon State and then-No. 2 Oregon last week to remain undefeated in the Pac-12 (14-0) and extend its winning streak to 20 matches. As a result, the Cardinal became a unanimuous choice for the nation’s No. 1 ranking in the coaches’ voting.

Wopat hit .700 for the two matches, averaging 3.67 kills, 5.00 points and 2.17 blocks per set. At OSU, the Santa Barbara native registered a career-high .706 hitting percentage, putting down 12 kills on 17 swings with no errors. She also registered four blocks, three digs and an ace against the Beavers. At second-ranked Oregon, she led the team with 10 kills and hit .692 while collecting a match-high nine blocks.

Wopat leads the Pac-12 with a .405 hitting percentage.

Howard was a key reason Stanford posted two sweeps on the road for the first time this season. A native of Los Altos, she had 3.67 kills, 2.67 digs and 4.42 points per set while hitting .328 in the two matches. Against OSU, she posted a match-high and career-high 14 kills, and added 13 digs for her fifth double-double of the season. Against the Ducks, the rookie tallied eight kills on a .333 hitting percentage and totaled four blocks and a service ace.

It is the fifth time this season a Cardinal rookie has earned the award: Madi Bugg (Sept. 10), Jordan Burgess (Sept. 24) and Inky Ajanaku (Oct. 15 and Oct. 29).

Stanford’s 20-,atch winning streak marks its longest such streak under coach John Dunning and the longest for the program since 1999.

The Cardinal will face Washington State and No. 5 Washington this week in Maples Pavilion. Stanford takes on Cougars on Wednesday at 7 p.m. and the Huskies on Thursday at 8 p.m. on the Pac-12 Networks.

Huestis leads Cardinal

Josh Huestis notched 16 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Stanford men’s basketball team past UNC Pembroke 85-71 in an exhibition game at Maples Pavilion on Sunday afternoon.

Aaron Bright poured in a game-high 21 points, dishing out five assists while connecting on 8 of 12 from the foul line.

Chasson Randle added 16 points and six assists, while John Gage chipped in with 11 points and seven rebounds.

Stanford struggled from beyond the arc, making only 6 of 30 3-point attempts.

The Cardinal will host San Francisco in its season opener Friday night at Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Hoops team wins exhibition

The fourth-ranked Stanford women’s basketball team completed its two-game exhibition schedule with an 82-47 rout of Vanguard on Saturday at Maples Pavilion. Bonnie Samuelson led all players for the second straight exhibition with 18 points. She went 5 of 12 from 3-point range.

Preseason All-American Chiney Ogwumike had 11 points and eight rebounds in over 21 minutes. The Cardinal opens the regular season Friday against Fresno State at Maples Pavilion.

Soccer team clubs Aztecs

The Stanford men’s soccer bounced back from a double-overtime loss to the nation’s fifth-ranked team, storming to a 4-0 win at San Diego State on Saturday.

The Cardinal (8-8-1, 4-4-1 Pac-12) visits Cal at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the regular-season finale. That match will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks.

Senior Adam Jahn scored his 10th goal of the campaign and assisted on two others against SDSU.

Zach Batteer netted his sixth goal of the season while Dersu Abolfathi and Eric Verso each bagged their second.

Cardinal wrestlers start 3-0

The Stanford wrestling team opened it season with dual wins over Simpson (44-6), Menlo College (34-6) and Cal Baptist (25-9) on Saturday at the Menlo College Duals in Atherton.

Stanford was led by senior Timmy Boone, junior Bret Baumbach and redshirt freshmen Evan Silver and Michael Sojka, who were all 3-0 on the afternoon. Juniors Donovan Halpin (1-0), Garrett Schaner (2-0) and Dan Scherer (2-0), and sophomore Brendan Ter Wee (1-0) and true freshman Dylan Morris (1-0) were all undefeated for the Cardinal as well.

The 14th-ranked Stanford field hockey team looks to clear its final hurdle on the way to a fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament berth, squaring off against Miami (Ohio) at 10 a.m. today in an NCAA play-in game. Riding a season-high six-game win streak, Stanford is coming off its fifth conference tournament crown in six years after blanking Liberty 3-0 over the weekend in Farmville, Va. Maddie Secco, Lauren Becker and Becky Dru scored, and Dulcie Davies made three saves in the shutout.

The Stanford sailing program boasted a pair of top-six finishers on the men’s side of the ICSA Singlehanded Championships — its best finish at the event since 2006. Stanford’s Kieran Chung-Wolf was third overall with 107 points and teammate Oliver Toole (125) was sixth among the 18-person field in Long Beach.

Freshmen Bret Bonanni and BJ Churnside each scored four goals, helping the third-ranked Stanford men’s water polo team improve to 14-4 with a 24-7 win over No. 19 Santa Clara on Sunday. Bonnani had six goals in an 18-7 win at No. 16 UC Davis on Saturday. Alex Bowen had four goals. Nick Hoversten and Churnside had three each.

No. 7 Texas (3-1) overcame a 25-point deficit to secure a 151.5-148.5 women’s swimming victory over No. 5 Stanford (2-1) at the Cardinal’s Avery Aquatics Complex on Saturday. With Texas trailing 144.5-138.5 heading into the meet-ending 400-yard freestyle relay, the Longhorns needed to win the event and have an additional relay place second or third to win the meet. Texas did just that, taking first and third. Stanford’s Maya DiRado won the 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley.

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